“John’s Caddy. 1975.” Larry Racioppo. Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger.net.
This is a classic silver gelatin darkroom print, done on 11×14 coated paper.
Joseph Bellows Gallery in California, specializes in 1970’s images as in this photo from nearly 50 years ago.
I love the humor–especially funny for car aficionados. The print is for sale.
There is a saying in photography, “Looking is harder than it seems.” It is about wonderful composition.
I heard a National Geographic photog. talk about composition. He said that he looks for wonderful settings, but that is not enough. He then waits for “magic” to occur; usually a person walks into his field of vision, and then if he perceives “magic,” then he trips the shutter.
In 1975 there was no digital photography, but there was a choice of color or black and white. But if you go back far enough, it was only black and white.
I was shooting both then and I produced pretty color pictures, good enough that some were published.
But I changed totally to black and white when I found that medium to be the most satisfying. Then I enrolled in darkroom courses by such famous print luminaries as George Tice.
Joseph Bellows has a web site where he shows many of his vintage images.
Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net.
In the 1960’s, the samba came from Brazil to the US brought by Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd, Joao Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto.
Here is “A Fellucidade” by Astrude Gilberto and Joao Gilberto—It was popular when the photo above was taken.